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resound

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verb/ɹɪˈzaʊnd//ɹəˈzaʊnd//ɹi-/
  1. 1

    To make (sounds), or to speak (words), loudly or reverberatingly.transitive

    • VVith noyſe vvhereof the quyre of Byrds reſounded / their anthemes ſvveet devized of loues prayſe, / that all the vvoods theyr ecchoes back rebounded, / as if they knevv the meaning of their layes.
    • [T]ho' Nations, vvhich conſult / Their Gain, at thy Expence, reſound Applauſe.
  2. 2

    Of a place: to cause (a sound) to reverberate; to echo.transitive

    • The foreſt wide is fitter to reſound / The hollow Echo of my carefull cryes, […]
    • Heare, heare, O heare Iarbus plaining prayers, / VVhose hideous ecchoes make the vvelkin hovvle, / And all the vvoods Eliza to reſound: […]
  3. 3

    To praise or spread the fame of (someone or something) with the voice or the sound of musical instruments; to celebrate, to extol; also, to declare (someone) to be a certain thing.transitive

    • The Warrier his deere skarres no more reſounds, / But ſeems to yeeld Chriſt hath the greater wounds, / Wounds willingly endur'd to work his bliſſe, / Who by an ambuſh loſt his Paradiſe.
    • [B]oth Heav'n and Earth ſhall high extoll / Thy praiſes, with th' innumerable ſound / Of Hymns and ſacred Songs, wherewith thy Throne / Encompaſs'd ſhall reſound thee ever bleſt.
  4. 4

    To repeat (another's words, opinions, etc.).transitive

    • As far as the immediate area, [the greatest anti-gay influence] has got to be the Church; it's definitely the Mormon Church. You know the current Moral Majority movement seems to be a likening to that. You know many Mormons may not like Rev
  5. 5

    Of a place: to reverberate with sound or noise.intransitive

    • The street resounded with the noise of the children’s game.
  6. 6

    Of a sound, a voice, etc.: to reverberate; to ring.intransitive

    • [W]hen thoſe pittifull outcries he [Proteus] heard, / Through all the ſeas ſo ruefully reſovvnd, / His charett ſvvifte in haſt he thether ſteard, […]
    • [T]hou haſt nothing ſayd, / That ſeems, vvith none of thẽ [them] thou fauor foundeſt, / Or art ingratefull to each gentle mayd, / That none of all their due deſerts reſoundeſt.
  7. 7

    Especially of a musical instrument: to make a (deep or reverberating) sound; also, to make sounds continuously.intransitive

    • The sound of the brass band resounded through the town.
  8. 8

    Of an event: to have a major effect in a certain place or time.figurativelyintransitive

  9. 9

    Of a person, their reputation, etc.: to be much lauded or mentioned.figurativelyintransitive

    • [I]t ſeemes that this place is conuerted into the Paſtoral Arcadia, it is ful of ſhepheards and ſheepfolds, and there is no one part thereof vvherein the name of the beautifull Leandra reſoundeth not: […]
    • The cauſe of my comming hither is for foure reſpects. Firſt, to ſee the bleſſed face of your Maiestie, vvhoſe vvonderfull fame hath reſounded ouer all Europe, and the Mahometan Countries.
noun
  1. 1

    An echoing or reverberating sound; a resounding.countable

    • Presently, out of the turmoil, the fighting of horses, the resound of blows, the murky cloud of dust and sand, he crawled, in time to see the Corinthian and Byzantine go on down the course after Ben-Hur, who had not been an instant delayed.
  2. 2

    The quality of echoing or reverberating; resonance.uncountable

    • And you ô trees (if any life there lies / In trees) now though your porous barkes receave / The straunge resounde of these my causeful cries: […]
    • Since Virtuous Actions have their own Trumpets, and without any noiſe from thy ſelf will have their reſound abroad; buſy not thy beſt Member in the Encomium of thy ſelf.
verb/ˌɹiːˈsaʊnd//ˌɹiˈsaʊnd/
  1. 1

    To echo or repeat (a sound).transitive

    • Any new alarms, from any patient, will resound the alarm tone.
  2. 2

    To sound again.intransitive

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